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Savage sword of Conan. Vol.1, no. 22, The pool of the black one / script: Roy Thomas ; art: John Buscema and Sonny Trinidad.
Thomas, Roy, 1940-Date: 1977- Pictures
Kowloon, Hong Kong: the bodies of five pirates after beheading, the severed heads on the ground, with eight European men standing by them. Photograph, 1891.
Date: [1891]Reference: 663456i- Pictures
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Canton, China: six men suspended by the neck in locked cages in public as a method of slow torture and execution for piracy. Photograph, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 663449i- Books
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An historical and geographical account of Algiers; comprehending a novel and interesting detail of events relative to the American captives. By James Wilson Stevens.
Stevens, James Wilson.Date: August, 1797- Books
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Useful remarks. An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Island, July 19, 1723. With an account of their speeches, letters, & actions, before their execution. [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1723- Books
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A narrative of the life and conversion of Alexander White, aet. 23. Who was executed at Cambridge, November 18, 1784, for the murder of a Captain White, at sea. Containing extracts from his manuscripts, and some letters written by him a short time before his execution.
White, Alexander, 1762-1784.Date: [1784?]- Books
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The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation, of Capt. John Quelch, And Others of his Company, &c. for sundry piracies, robberies, and murder, committed upon the Subjects of the King of Portugal, Her Majesty's Allie, on the coast of Brasil, &c. who Upon full Evidence, were found guilty, at the Court-House in Boston, on the thirteenth of June, 1704. By Virtue of a Commission, grounded upon the Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of King William, For the more effectual Suppression of Piracy. With the Arguments of the Queen's Council; and Council for the Prisoners upon the said Act. Perused By his Excellency Joseph Dudley, Esq; Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, in America, &c. To which are also added, some papers that were produc'd at the tryal above said. With An Account of the Ages of the several Prisoners, and the Places where they were Born.
Quelch, John, approximately 1665-1704.Date: 1705 [1704]- Books
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The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews; from Captain Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Captain John Gow, and James Williams, his Lieutenant, &c. who were hanged at Execution Dock, on June 11, 1725, for Piracy and Murder, and afterwards hung in Chains between Blackwall and Deptford; and of several others, down to the Year 1735. Giving a more full and true Account than any yet published, of all their Murders, Piracies, Maroonings, Places of Refuge, and Ways of Living. To Which IS Prefixed, An Abstract of the Laws against Piracy. A New Edition: Adorned with Twenty-One beautiful Cuts, being the Representation of each Pirate.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1790?]- Pictures
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An angler pulls in a raft on which Russian pirates are tied to a gibbet with hooks piercing into their flesh. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1805.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: December 1805Reference: 43254i- Books
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Piracy destroy'd: or, a short discourse shewing ther rise, growth and causes of piracy of late; with a sure method how to put a speedy stop to that growing evil. Humbly offered to the consideration of the present Parliament. In a letter from an officer of an East-India ship lately arriv'd in the river, to the deputy governour of the East-India-Company, London.
Date: 1701- Books
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A general history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, pirates, street-robbers, and thief-takers. Particularly the four last most noted villains, viz. Macdaniel, Salmon, Eagan and Berry. As also of that notorious Accomplice of theirs, Mary Jones and Others. Shewing The diabolical Arts by them practised, to get innocent Persons convicted for Robberies, and to share amongst themselves the Rewards paid for such Convictious. The Whole Interspersed with several diverting Tales, embellished with the Heads of the most remarkable Villians, neatly Engraved. By Capt. Mackdonald.
Mackdonald, Capt.Date: M.DCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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An historical and geographical account of Algiers; containing a circumstantial and interesting detail of events relative to the American captives, taken from their own testimony. By James Wilson Stephens, of Philadelphia.
Stevens, James Wilson.Date: 1800. (Copy right secured)- Pictures
China: the bodies and heads of four men who have been beheaded lie on the ground; a group of Chinese soldiers stand nearby, one of them wiping his sword. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663488i- Books
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An ordinance, to amend an ordinance, entitled, "An ordinance for establishing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas."
United States.Date: 1783]